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Phone Recommendation For Noob (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello

I'm being pushed into the market by google/android to acquire a new phone due to it slowing down. I'm sick of this marketing tactic and the clutter of preinstalled apps and junk software.

What phone and operating system could I get that could allow me to use for a long period of time and out of reach from subversive tactics from giant corporations?

I'm basically a farmer and so know nothing about coding and not too technologically oriented but would really like to break away from the capitalist/hyperconsumerist phone craze. Thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It would help if we knew what your use case is. What do you do with phone? Do you depend on some special apps for messaging or something? It may also be valuable to know where you're located? US? Europe? Asia?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm a simple kind of guy. I would just use it for calls, texts, videos, Lemmy, and to check emails. I'm in the US.

My current $150 phone has been perfect until one day over the past three weeks it just started sucking at everything. I suspect foul play and wanted to workaround it. The suggestions of alternate OSs for phones have been great but I didn't realize that I would have to request permission from the phone manufacturer due to it being a Verizon phone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just thought of it but have you tried a factory reset? Maybe something just got off kilter and that would give you a blank slate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I just did one and it is working a lot better. Still, a good reason to be preparing as my phone's days ate numbered lol

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